Production facilities at the factory were devastated by the demonstrators on Sept. 15 when they stormed into the factory, it said.

Resumption of normal operations at the Qingdao factory signifies the resumption of normal operations at all of Panasonic's plants in China. Their production activities had been disrupted by Chinese protests over the Sept. 11 nationalization of the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.